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jac
(1/9/2017)
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This reminds me on the incident years ago where a television show star was showing off and shot himself in the temple with a .44 magnum revolver loaded with blanks.
Jon-Erik Hexum died on the set of the CBS television series "COVER UP".
The show was being filmed at the Twentieth Century Fox studios lot in Century City, when he 'accidentally' shot himself. The character he was playing was a weapons expert whose cover was that of a fashion show photographer.
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| Comment by:
jac
(1/9/2017)
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During a scene where he is lying in bed, in between takes, he was playing around with a .44 Magnum revolver that was on-set for use as a blank-firing weapon. Shortly after 5:15 p.m. he put the pistol (according to witnesses, it was loaded with three empty cartridges and two blanks) up to his right temple. As he pulled the trigger he smiled, and supposedly said, "Let's see if I got myself with this one."
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| Comment by:
jac
(1/9/2017)
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He was apparently unaware that at close range, a blank can cause great damage. The explosion drove a quarter-sized piece of his skull far into his brain. The paper wadding of the straight-walled blank cartridge went straight into his temple and forced a bone chip to lodge in his brain.
Davis is absolutely correct that no responsible and knowledgeable gun owner would pull either of these stunts.
I believe this a lot of the reason that people are anti-gun. They fear what they don't understand. |
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